Bath Abbey

Bath Abbey is an Anglican church in Bath, Somerset, England, founded in 675 as a Catholic monastery. The Hwicce king Osric funded the abbey's construction, and, in 973, King Edgar of England was crowned at Bath Abbey. It was reorganized in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries, occasionally serving as the cathedral of a bishop during the Middle Ages. The Benedictine community was dissolved in 1539 during King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, and the church's denomination switched to the Church of England.